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" At a certain career level, it's no longer about whether you are the smartest subject-matter expert in the room. "

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" I actually had someone say to me, 'Lynn, you're going to have very good days, and you're going to have very bad days. But It's rare that things are as good as they look, and it's rare that things are as bad as they seem.' So having perspective, and challenging perspective, is important to making good decisions. "

" I will work to ensure Duke Energy is positioned to continue its track record of outstanding customer service and operational and financial excellence. "

" 2013 was a year of great accomplishment for Duke: our first full year as a combined company. "

" As we continue to move to a lower-carbon future, we will also continue to work constructively with states to identify customer solutions that preserve the reliability and affordability that our communities expect. "

" For 2015, Duke Energy's employees safety record received the top rank among large utilities as recognize by EEI. "

" Over the long term, we should develop and implement new technologies to capture and store coal's carbon emissions. We also must make our electric grid more resilient. "

" You were in the midst of a chaotic, unfair, didn't-know-how-it-was-going-to-end story, and the only thing you could do was... keep moving. "

" When I was growing up, we had a widow living next door to us. So the habit was that if we went to the grocery store, we called her first. If we cut our yard, we cut her yard, no questions asked. "

" I don't see any new coal. "

" There is growing demand for renewable energy. "

Renewable Energy

" What we are investing in, from a generation standpoint, are renewables and natural gas. "

" If you feel like there is going to be an emotional reaction that won't be helpful to resolve the situation, anger or other things, disarm the situation in some way, and you can use different techniques to do that. "

" I respect passionate views. "

" Our highest priorities are safe operations and the well-being of the people and communities we serve. "

" I went to work in accounting at Arthur Andersen. At one point, it was the creme de la creme. I wanted to work there because it looked like the hardest thing I could find, and I loved being on a steep learning curve. I progressed quickly, and two years out of college, I was managing a small team of people. "

" We don't believe carbon capture is a proven, scalable, commercially available technology. "

" Leaders play a unique role in periods of crisis and chaos. Because if you don't, you're not going to harness the power of all the people behind you. "

" The way we grow is, we make investments. We've been building a natural-gas platform within Duke that started with the pipelines. "

" I can be incredibly focused, and I can appear impatient. So I've learned to slow down, get to know people, and provide more context. There's nothing wrong with getting to the point pretty quickly, but it's also helpful to give people an opportunity to talk about their work. "

" I'll be the first one to tell you I burn coal... That fossil generation and the nuclear generation, frankly, is necessary in order for me to provide power. "

" Fracking has been a real technological change that has caused great innovation in our business, and we've had the benefit of very low gas prices for our customers as a result of that. "

" Natural gas is an important part of delivering energy, whether you're producing power or other solutions for customers. "

" Leadership is a journey - you never arrive. "

" I had never seen a computer when I went to college. "

" The enthusiasm around carbon capture and sequestration was probably greater before the shale-gas discovery and the low prices were so prevalent. "

" We are setting a new standard for coal ash management and implementing smart, sustainable solutions for all of our ash basins. "

" I think about trust and confidence as something that you earn every day, and we will keep at it, earning it every day. "

" There's nothing about Lynn Good at age 30 or age 35 that would have said, 'I am setting my sights on being a CEO.' "

" I hope nuclear becomes a part of the conversation, at the right time when we recognize the importance of that resource. I hope we can work that out as a country and figure out how we are going to put nuclear in the mix. "

" I don't believe you can absolutely have it all. "